I'm not very knowledgable about the Poser 5 characters; when I first got Poser 5 I tried working with them a little but got frustrated and gave up. As for Daz3D, these characters are remarkably well constructed and are very high-resolution. There's more to them than just nice textures-- but it helps that the best textures in the business are specifically tailored to the Daz3D models. Be forwarned that Daz3d models require a lot of memory, and that Poser runs much more slowly when using these models. Poser 5 is not entirely compatable with them, either (Poser 4 was more compatable, but it appears that Curious Labs prefers for its software to fight with the Daz3d models rather than support them.) The poster above mentioned DAZStudio. This is an alternative to using Poser5 for working with Daz3D models. It's freeware that unfortunately is still under development-- the last time I tried it, it was Crash City. But I have a Macintosh; you might have better luck running the PC version of it.